Ik ben met een groep geestverwanten The Firewall begonnen, omdat ik weiger toe te kijken hoe techgiganten onze democratie ondermijnen. The Firewall vecht terug. Met het vrije woord en de rechtspraak. #StaOpTegenBigTech Word medestander van @thefirewall.eurosky.social www.thefirewall.eu/doe-mee

Dance like nobody is watching. Sing like nobody is listening. Email like one day your data will be leaked by a criminal hacker group.

Canvasdata onderwijsinstellingen buitgemaakt in hack...😐 Als mijn cursusmateriaal over data-ethiek ook tussen de buitgemaakte data zit, telt dat dan ook als impact of valorisatie? 😆 www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/... #academicsky #academia #universiteit #hack #canvas #academic

How do publishers extract money, free labor, and data from universities? Read it in this open-access blog: socialsciencespace.com/2026/04/how-... Based on chapter 9 of this open-access book: doi.org/10.66742/VPY...

What needs fixing in academia? Read the open-access book "Fixing Academia" here for free: doi.org/10.66742/VPY...

Nederlandse universiteiten zijn te afhankelijk van een handvol commerciële uitgevers. Zorgen voor meer 'digitale soevereiniteit' blijkt makkelijker gezegd dan gedaan. Maar er zijn inspirerende initiatieven te vinden. 👉 buff.ly/ycxDYah

Toegang tot kennis(productie) wordt nog altijd sterk bepaald door geografische grenzen, taal en bestaande machtsstructuren. In de essaybundel Fixing Academia brengen tien jonge academici de onzichtbare drempels van de wetenschap in kaart, en zoeken ze naar manieren om het systeem te herstellen.

Universities are the cash cow of publishers like Elsevier. Universities pay with: 1) money, 2) free labor, 3) data. But this can change! Read how we can fix this in our open-access book Fixing Academia (chapter 9): fixingacademia.wordpress.com/chapter-9/.

Universities are the cash cow of publishers like Elsevier. Universities pay with: 1) money, 2) free labor, 3) data. But this can change! Read how we can fix this in our open-access book Fixing Academia (chapter 9): fixingacademia.wordpress.com/chapter-9/.

Voor De Groene Amsterdammer schreef ik een artikel over hoe universiteiten kunnen loskomen van de macht van commerciële uitgevers als Elsevier. Uitgeverijen knijpen universiteiten uit op 3 manieren: 1) geld, 2) gratis werk, 3) data. Link: www.groene.nl/artikel/de-u... @groene.nl

Can participative budgeting impact wellbeing? Yes! 👇 doi.org/10.1186/s128...

Fixing Academia is now also available for preordering on Amazon 📚 @woinactie.bsky.social @vuamsterdam.bsky.social @uvapress.bsky.social Link: www.amazon.nl/-/en/Dion-Kr... More info: www.fixingacademia.com

Can Accounting Impact Wellbeing...? Our new paper suggests so! We wrote a blog about it (open access): www.socialsciencespace.com/2026/03/can-... Original study (BMC Public Health) here: doi.org/10.1186/s128...

"Fixing Academia" will be released one month from now. Preorder: vuuniversitypress.com/product/fixi... More info: www.fixingacademia.com

Op 2 april verschijnt FIXING ACADEMIA - een boek door 10 jonge onderzoekers over wat er nodig "gerepareerd" moet worden aan Nederlandse universiteiten. Alvast een paar steekwoorden: uitgevers, ouderschap, eerstegeneratiestudenten, beursaanvragen, werkdruk. Link: fixingacademia.com #universiteit

Accounting can increase employee wellbeing...!? Our paper on accounting & wellbeing of middle managers has been accepted at BMC Public Health (Open Access). Link: doi.org/10.1186/s128...

Pedro Sánchez, prime minister of Spain, shows what pragmatic and ideological leadership looks like www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...

Just received an email from a prospective PhD student who was impressed with my TEDx talk on numbers. After I felt happy for a while about the compliment and the kind words, I came back to reality and realized I never gave a TEDx talk. #nextlevelaihallucinationsinemails

"If you understood everything I said, you'd be me." - Miles Davis

"Academics who publish frequently in two top business journals often have prior working relationships with the editors who handle their papers, according to a new analysis" 👉https://retractionwatch.com/2025/12/17/business-journals-scholars-relationships-elite-cohort-scholars-editors/

Yess.. this beauty will be published in 2026 📖👍 check out fixingacademia.com for more info. #booksky #fixingacademia

THE: "You have been selected based on your record of research publication." ME: --> OK, but did you read them? 😜 #meetmaatschappij #quantifiedsociety #ranking #ranglijst

Indicatorisme: "Bunq keert onder meer bonussen uit aan werknemers die recensies plaatsen over het bedrijf in de hoop zo de score (nu 3,7 uit 5 sterren) op te poetsen." www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

😐 "Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report"

Follow your dreams...👇

Vandaag in de @telegraaf.nl een stuk over de prestatiesamenleving, met bijdragen van psycholoog Nienke Wijnants en ondergetekende. Link: www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/waaro...

Sorbonne University decides to withdraw from THE World University Ranking: www.sorbonne-universite.fr/en/news/sorb... Why would universities do this? I wrote a blog about it recently on social science space, available here: www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/08/stop...

Hoeveel sterren geeft u dit stuk? Over onze doorgeslagen obsessie met online reviews

'Let’s replace the frame of academia as a competition with a frame that recognizes and rewards cooperation. Let’s put an end to the ranking circus.' Stop the University Ranking Circus by @berendvdkolk.bsky.social #HigherEd www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/08/stop...

"we should ignore rankings as academics: they are misleading and harmful to academic values" - www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/08/stop...

#academicsky #quantifiedsociety #meetmaatschappij #academia 😁

"The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth, and truth be defamed as lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world (..) is being destroyed." - Hannah Arendt

MS Teams in a car - I cannot wait.. Never able to skip a meeting anymore if you're traveling. 🤨 "Car productivity" #surveillance

Look! I found a scatterplot during my holidays 🤓 (@ Museo Can Mario)

How does digitalization of finance departments take shape? To answer this question, we conducted a survey and various interviews with finance directors. We find, among others, that having a digitalization strategy matters. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...

Well, well, well... 🤡

False dichotomies: a blessing or a curse?

Hoe verhouden controle en vertrouwen zich tot elkaar in de zorg? En welke rol speelt prestatiemeting? Dit thema komt aan de orde in het dubbelinterview in FIZIER, het blad van de beroepsvereniging van zorgfinancials. Interview (18-21): issuu.com/fizi4/docs/f... Onderzoek: doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...

This was always my main beef with the quality improvement projects I was exposed to in the past--tracking data that didn't actually reflect changes that mattered, and forcing non-data to be data. I think we can do better than that.

Your daily reminder 👇 (Source: quantifiedsociety.com)

For those interested in management control & motivation: a paper was published last week by Hikaru Goto and Makoto Kuroki, replicating our motivation paper in a Japanese setting. Replication: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Our original paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Wat is indicatorisme? Lees en leer erover bij @binnenlandsbestuur.bsky.social : www.binnenlandsbestuur.nl/carriere/vu-... #indicatorisme #meetmaatschappij @vuamsterdam.bsky.social

🤩 Is there any place on earth with a higher (history+beauty)/m2 ratio than Rome?

What's a potential problem of quantitative research? "quantitative analysis and discourse often implies a degree of certainty in its generalisations that vastly exceeds the limits of assumptions and probabilities involved in the underlying calculations" - Parker & Northcott, doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ...

Not everything that matters can be measured, and not everything that can be measured matters. Source: The Quantified Society, p. 130. www.amazon.com/Quantified-S...

"Managers [falsely] conceive of themselves as morally neutral characters whose skills enable them to devise the most efficient means of achieving whatever end is proposed." - Alisdair MacIntyre (1929-2025)

They have offices..? 🤔😉

Could there be a tension between commercial academic publishing and research integrity? 🤔

Perhaps the worst data visualization job on the internet so far.. 🙄

Policy makers: Let's count the number of publications to assess research quality! Scientific community: OK! ... Total annual scientific publications rose from 2 million (2010) to 3.3 million (2022).